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Does roast with beef, batter and timing advice for chef? (4-6,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

best-before date

'timing advice for chef?' is the definition.

'does roast with beef batter' is the wordplay.
'roast with' indicates anagramming the letters (instruction to cook the letters).
'beef'+'batter'='beefbatter'
'does' anagrammed with 'beefbatter' makes 'BEST-BEFORE DATE'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Another definition for best-before date that I've seen is " Food freshness indicator".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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